Massachusetts

A former Massachusetts firefighter who ran a dog training and boarding facility in South Boston where he allegedly abused animals will be on probation for two years after pleading in the case, prosecutors said Thursday. Tyler Falconer, who used to own Falco K9, on Wednesday pleaded to a continuance without a finding on two count of animal cruelty b...

Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden paid a $5,000 civil fine for violating conflict of interest laws during the 2022 Democratic primary election, according to the State Ethics Commission. The violation concerns the Democratic primary for the Suffolk County District Attorney race, which Hayden won over then-Boston city councilor Ricardo Ar...

The Boston bouncer who stabbed a 23-year-old Marine veteran to death in March of 2022 pleaded guilty to manslaughter during a hearing Thursday morning in Suffolk Superior Court. Alvaro Omar Larrama, who was a bouncer at the former Sons of Boston bar on Union Street near Faneuil Hall, was charged in the killing of Daniel Martinez. Martinez was from ...

Police in Brookline, Massachusetts, issued an advisory Thursday morning to notify the public that a credit card skimmer had been found at a gas station in town. Brookline police didn’t specify which business the skimmer was found at, saying only that it was found the other day inside a gas pump. Police used the opportunity to remind people th...

The judge and lawyers in the Karen Read case on Thursday settled many — but not all — of the issues that were left to decide before the trial, one of Massachusetts’ most closely watched legal sagas, begins next week.

Boston police tore down a pro-Palestinian encampment on Emerson College’s campus overnight, arresting more than 100 people, and appeared poised to do the same to a new demonstration that formed at Northeastern University’s campus Thursday afternoon. Dozens of people, apparently including students and faculty, formed a ring around an enc...

A man has died by suicide after he barricaded himself inside his North Andover, Massachusetts, home late Wednesday night and fired at the officers who responded, officials said. North Andover police say they received a 911 call around 9:50 p.m. from a resident at 416 Waverly Road who said a family member was experiencing a mental health episode ins...

Police in Lowell, Massachusetts, say a missing man has been located. Authorities said the man had last been seen around 6 p.m. Wednesday near the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsborough State Forest. Police later said the man had been found.

The busy boating season in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is beginning with a scandal at the harbormaster’s office over theft and forgery. TJ Ciarametaro says he was wrongfully terminated by the city earlier this month. The former harbormaster says he worked with Gloucester police to catch the shellfish warden stealing petty cash. The warden then...

Top Democrats expect to file a compromise Wednesday on a bill designed to continue funding the state’s overrun emergency family shelter system and implement reforms to cut costs by limiting how long families may stay in shelters. As State House News Service first reported, lawmakers working on a fiscal 2024 supplemental budget (H 4466 / S 271...

The public will get to weigh in on a possible ban on sales of tobacco and e-cigarette products to anyone who was born after 2003 in Malden, Massachusetts, at a board of health meeting on Wednesday night. According to the public hearing agenda, any businesses that defy the ban could be fined and suspended. “I would support it at this…

A person was grazed by a bullet Wednesday in what’s being investigated as a possible road rage incident on Interstate 93 in Braintree, Massachusetts, sources tell the NBC10 Investigators. State police later said troopers responded around 2:50 p.m. after a vehicle was hit by a bullet on I-93 southbound. Investigators found two vehicles were in...

Slamming Steward Health Care executives for “really despicable” conduct, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday that she wants Massachusetts and federal regulators to conduct a thorough review of a proposal that would sell Steward’s physician network to for-profit insurer Optum. Healey faced questions during an interview on WBUR’s &...